Today in the NYTimes is a headline story about the "controversial plans" for putting cameras up a la London all through out lower Manhattan for the purpose of monitoring cars and traffic. The images captured will help identify terror suspects and thwart terror plots around the extremely hard to navigate area of the city.

It will provide 3000 cameras below Canal Street and a video center staffed by police to watch the video feeds as well as operate controlled roadblocks. The plan will cost $90 million dollars.

Last year the Mayor of New York City went kvetching to the feds that $127 million would not be enough.

As I argued on Neil Cavuto's show last year - even publicly educated math students should be able to figure out that $127 million is more than $90 million.

This year NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is again complaining that there is not enough money to install the camera program.

But why?

What happened to the $127 million NYC was granted last year from the feds? (And as I argued on Cavuto, the city should be growing less dependent on federal monies to cover security costs anyway.)

This year the feds are willing to give New York City another $100 million plus and Bloomberg, Kelly, Spitzer, Weiner, Rangel, Schumer, Clinton are all kvetching AGAIN that we're not getting enough money.

It's bad enough that they could have funded the camera program last year... AND DIDN'T.

It's bad enough that the feds are again giving us MORE THAN ENOUGH monies to fund the program this year... AND IT STILL HASN'T BEGUN.

But how does the New York political gaggle explain this?

New York has not spent 47% of the 1.4 BILLION dollars that the feds have dedicated to the state!

That's upwards of $700,000,000 dollars in unused funds... (700 million?)

Enough with all the complaining Bloomberg, get it in gear and get the camera program installed!

NOW!